As of 2015, it was the world's most numerous fixed-wing aircraft in military service. The F-16 has also been procured to serve in the air forces of 25 other nations. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team, and as an adversary/aggressor aircraft by the United States Navy. Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and Air National Guard units, the aircraft is also used by the U.S. The F-16's official name is "Fighting Falcon", but "Viper" is commonly used by its pilots and crews, because of a perceived resemblance to a viper snake as well as to the fictional Colonial Viper starfighter from the television program Battlestar Galactica which aired at the time the F-16 entered service. The F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon and 11 locations for mounting weapons and other mission equipment. The Fighting Falcon's key features include a frameless bubble canopy for good visibility, side-mounted control stick to ease control while maneuvering, an ejection seat reclined 30 degrees from vertical to reduce the effect of g-forces on the pilot, and the first use of a relaxed static stability/ fly-by-wire flight control system that helps to make it an agile aircraft. In 1993, General Dynamics sold its aircraft manufacturing business to the Lockheed Corporation, which in turn became part of Lockheed Martin after a 1995 merger with Martin Marietta. Air Force, improved versions are being built for export customers. Although no longer being purchased by the U.S. Over 4,600 aircraft have been built since production was approved in 1976.
Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Technical data: Maximum speed: 2,170 km / h, rate of climb: 254 m / s, maximum ceiling 15240m, maximum range: 3890km, armament: fixed - one 20mm six-barrel M61A-1 cannon, suspended - up to 9275 kg of cargo.The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Undoubtedly, the highest sum proposed by the American company as part of the so-called offset transaction. The Polish Ministry of Defense decided that the F-16 would be the backbone of the modernized air force, rejecting offers from Dessault and SAAB, although in this case they were Mirrage F2000 and JAS-39 Grippen fighters. Since 2006, the F-16 also serves in the Polish aviation. On the basis of these six models, numerous upgrades are created, most often associated with the replacement of avionics, marked as "Block".
There were six basic versions of the F-16, marked as A, C, E (single-seater) and B, D, F (two-seater). By the end of the 20th century, more than 4,000 of this successful aircraft had been produced.
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The F-16 also proved itself in combat, with a series of air victories in the war in Lebanon (1982) and during the Operation Desert Storm (1991). It is an assault version of the F-16, intended primarily to counter ground targets.
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The first serial F-16A Fighting Falcon was flown on August 7, 1978. Final assembly was performed in the USA, Belgium and the Netherlands. It was also attended by European NATO countries for which it was an injection of new aviation technologies. Serial production of the F-16 began in 1975. His rivals were the Dassault Mirage F.1 and SAAB J-37 Viggen machines. It is worth noting that the YF-16 design turned out to be so successful that it won not only the LWF competition in the USA (in competition with the Northrop YF-17 aircraft), but also won the centenary contract for a multi-role fighter for European NATO countries. The "brain" of the guidance system was the APG-66 radar, later replaced by the APG-68 (V) radar. The different versions of the F-16 are powered by three versions of the engines: Pratt-Whitney F-100-PW-200, General Electric F110-GE100 and Pratt-Whitney F-100-PW-2020. The first versions were to a large extent made of aluminum alloys (about 83% of the total structure), but with time they gave way to composites. The F-16 was the first fighter in the world to use such a system. A breakthrough in technical terms was the use of a computerized electric fly-by-wire control system, which made it possible to reduce the area of the wings and tail, and thus reduce the weight of the entire aircraft. The YF-16 prototype first flew on February 2, 1974. Work on the F-16 project began in 1971 at the General Dynamics concern (which in 1993 was part of the Lockheed Martin giant), entering the competition for a light multi-purpose fighter (LWF) for the US Air Force. The General-Dynamics F16 Falcon is an American single-engine, multi-role light fighter and stormtrooper.
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